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Cold Knap

Cold Knap

District of Barry in Wales

Cold Knap is a district of Barry in South Wales.

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Cold Knap is a coastal pebble beach (with some sand at low tide),[1] approximately a mile west of the sandy beach at Barry Island, which attracts visitors during the summer months. It extends generally westwards towards Porthkerry from Cold Knap Point.[2] It was founded by the Romans who used it as a port, and the remains of a Roman building here are now a scheduled monument.[3]

Attractions include a lake shaped like a Welsh harp and the Richard Taylor Memorial Skatepark.[4] There was previously an outdoor swimming pool, but this has now been closed and filled in, and the area turned into a tourist trail. There was a campaign to have the lido rebuilt during 2014 but an enthusiastic online campaign (including a Facebook campaign group ("Rebuild the Knap Lido") has not been successful, despite a number of celebrity endorsements (including local BBC weatherman Derek Brockway).[5]

Cold Knap Lake is the title and subject of a poem by Gillian Clarke, which has been included in an English literature GCSE syllabus in England. Cold Knap Point is the site of a sewage pumping station serving Barry.[6] It was also the location of a case in English contract law - Chapelton v. Barry UDC [1940] 1 KB 532 - where a man's deckchair collapsed.

The park is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    Cold Knap beach at beachguide.wales Accessed 27 June 2017
  2. [2]
    Map showing Cold Knap beach at streetmap.co.uk Accessed 27 June 2017
  3. [3]
    'Roman building remains, Cold Knap, Barry' at historypoints.org Accessed 27 June 2017
  4. [4]
    "Barry's Richard Taylor Memorial Skatepark opens this weekend / Barry And District News". Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  5. [5]
    Sharon Harris: 'Weatherman pools support for Lido campaign', 6 August 2014, at barryanddistrictnews.co.uk Accessed 27 June 2017
  6. [6]
    See file: '3 The Knap to Watch House Beach.pdf', including "...a strategically important sewage pumping station that serves Barry", at www.southwalescoast.org Accessed 27 June 2017
  7. [7]
    Cadw. "Cold Knap Park (PGW(Gm)58(GLA))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

51°23′14″N 3°17′25″W

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